894 PAPAYACEAE 
4l. V. arvensis Murr. Similar to the next preceding, but stouter, often 
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3—4 dm. high, erect br 
late, noticeably erenate; stipules more coarsely nd the upper lobe usually 
much enlarged, e and sparsely erenate: petals usually shorter than 
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ud imes the u 
tips, and the spurred petal deep-yellow at base: eapsule globose: seed brown, 
narrowly obovoid, 1.7 mm. long.—(WILD-PANSY.)—Fields and roadsides, vari- 
ous provinces N of Coastal Plain, N. C. to Ont., and Newf.—Nat. of Eu. 
2. CUBELIUM Raf. Perennial eaulescent, rather tall herbs. Leaves 
alternate: blades entire or slightly toothed, Flowers borne in axillary clusters, 
ineonspieuous. Sepals 5, nearly equal, not 
auricled. Petals 5, green, nearly equal in 
length, the lower one largest and gibbous 
near the base. Stamens 5, filaments united 
into a sheath m the pistil and bearing 
a gland on the lower side. Style hooked at 
the apex. Capsule longer than thick, slightly 
3-lobed, 3-valved.—One specie 
a C. concolor (Forst.) Raf. Stem up to 1 
tall, pubescent: leaf-blades elliptic or 
cllipticabovate, —16 em. long, acuminate or 
eute the apex, tapering to a rather 
Sieger prt -like base: sepals linear-subu- 
late or linear-laneeolate, more than half as lon 
mm. n o at the apex: connective- -tips 
nearly so: 1.5-2 cm. long: seed about 5 mm. in di tos 
Rich ds eet and stream-banks, various provinces, rarely Coastal Plain, 
Ga. to Miss., Kans., Ont., and N. Y.—Spr. 
Orper PASSIFLORALES — PASSIFLORAL ORDER 
Herbs, vines, or shrubby plants, or succulent tree-like plants with 
milky sap. Leaves alternate: ‘blades entire, toothed, or lobe Flowers 
perfect or dioecious. Calyx of 4 or 5 more or less united os Corolla 
of 4 or 5 distinet or united petals, sometimes accompanied by a fringed 
crown, or rarely wanting. Androecium of 5 stamens, or of 10 stamens in 
2 unequal rows. Gynoecium of 3-5 united carpels. Ovary superior. 
Fruit a berry or a capsule. 
Corolla not accompanied by a crown: flowers mainly dioecious, the staminate and 
pistillate different. Fam. 1. PAPAYACEAE. 
Corolla accompanied by a crown: flowers perfect, all alike. Fam. 2. PASSIFLORACEAE. 
FAMILY 1. PAPAYACEAE — PAPAYA FAMILY 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves with s 7-9-lobed blades. Corolla salver- 
e 10: filaments adnate to the corolla-tube. Anthers erect. 
baceate, borne near the top of tho stem.—Two genera and over 30 
species o and subtropical. 
1. CARICA L. Plants with milky juice, the stem rather tender, simple 
or branched, much-scarred above. Leaf-blades palmately or pinnately lobed. 
